REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Jan. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Communication Intelligence Corporation (Nasdaq: CICI) ("CIC"), bringing you "The Power to Sign Online(TM)," announced today that it has entered into a licensing agreement with PHT Corporation, for CIC's InkTools(R), its electronic signature software development kit ("SDK"), to be used within PHT's Esendant(TM) LogPad(R), clinical trial data collection system using Palm based handheld devices.

CIC's InkTools product will be a vital component of PHT's overall system and is being used to capture the signatures of patients and medical investigators involved in clinical trials testing the safety and efficacy of new medicines. Leading pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies are using PHT's technology to improve the integrity, safety, accuracy and speed of the clinical trial process.

Guido DiGregorio, CIC's President and CEO stated, "Through this relationship with PHT, we are delighted to be participating in the forefront of modern drug development, driving the move from the paper age to the biometric age. This agreement and this application provide an excellent example of our electronic signature technology being leveraged to significantly lower costs while dramatically improving the speed of the process at higher levels of security."

Jim Becker, President for PHT Corporation commented, "Clinical trial information is of a highly sensitive and confidential nature. We chose to work with CIC because they have the most robust biometrics signature product on the market today. This provides a level of security and non-repudiation protection required by our customers and is a cornerstone for our applications."

InkTools is a high performance SDK for implementing systems using electronic ink or handwritten signatures. InkTools provides electronic ink capture and display, biometric signature verification and ink compression as well as other encryption and hashing algorithms that add value to a wide variety of document and transaction based applications.

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